Why You Should Understand the Basic Concepts of Business Valuation
The everyday concepts of the business world are sales,
management, marketing, accounting, inventory,
purchasing, cash flow, borrowing, customers, vendors,
insurance, etc. These concepts are what business
owners, managers and professional advisors deal with
on a daily basis. A much more evasive concept is
business valuation. Knowledge of business valuation is
not necessary to successfully start or manage a
business, or to be a competent advisor. But those
having a basic understanding of value and business
valuation will have a tremendous advantage. This
article explains why.
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Greetings!
Greetings business owner and welcome to the M&A
Front, VERCOR's monthly newsletter. The purpose is to
provide information of use to you, especially information
on topics that relate to VERCOR's area of expertise -
the purchase, sale and valuation of mid-size private
businesses.
This issue contains two articles that will help you
better understand business valuation. The first
explains why you should commit yourself to
understanding the basic concepts of business
valuation. The second sheds light on why the area of
business valuation is so confusing. Next, enlightening
new research finding on personnel management and
employee productivity and motivation is summarized in
our book review. Last, we present a powerful new and
low cost tool for efficiently gathering customer
feedback.
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| What You Don't Know Can Hurt You | | |  Customer feedback is critical. It can be the key to
your business' continued good health. Knowing what
the customer wants, needs and demands of you will
help to maintain your current customer base and gain
new customers. The problem with customer survey
programs is that they often take too much time and
expense. However, a new service makes it incredibly
cheap and easy. SurveyWriter.com provides an easy
tool that companies of all sizes can use to create a
web-based customer survey form and obtain the
results.Read More... | | |
| Business Valuation: Confusing and Misunderstood | | |  Do you want to know the value of your
business? Pose the question to your closest friends
and advisors. You will be amazed at the range of
responses. For further amusement, ask each how they
arrived at their answer. Despite the fact that value and
valuation is foundational to our entire economic lives
and free-market system, the concepts remain
misunderstood and are constantly misapplied. This is
due, in part, by some inherent characteristics which
are discussed herein.Full Story | | |
| First, Break All the Rules | | |  Common sense has long held that a more engaged
employee is a more productive employee. One would
think that a more engaged employee is also a more
profitable employee, a more customer focused
employee, a safer employee, and an employee who is
more likely to withstand temptations to jump ship. The
million dollar question, then, is how do we ensure that
employees are "engaged". Thanks to the Gallup
Organization, we no longer have to wonder. This
article summarizes the recently-released finding of their
massing study on employee productivity.More Information ... | | |
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